Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft
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#2> Airbus selling ai-operated strike drones.
FTFY
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#3Good! Great to hear! EU needs to grow its domestic military industry, the French were right all along.
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#4There's a funny term some cool kids use for them, "drone", I think? Personally I think it's too short to convey the full utility.
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#5Good! Great to hear! EU needs to grow its domestic military industry, the French were right all along.
They are reprogramming a US built drone to the German datalink equivalent with some AI sprinkled on top. Unfortunately far away from a real industry.
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#6"Begun, the Clone War has." -Yoda
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#7"Begun, the Clone War has." -Yoda
The worry being that war will be a lot easier to stomach when none of the combatants are alive.
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#9Good! Great to hear! EU needs to grow its domestic military industry, the French were right all along.
The EU already has the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 10th largest share of global arms exports. Losing the 8th place slot due to Brexit.
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#10There are multiple interesting developments wrapped together here.
First, these are intended to be "loyal wingman". They'll be commanded (but not really remotely controlled) from manned fighters nearbyish. Presumably, the "shoot authorization" will be delegated down to the pilots.
Secondly, the actual unmanned platform (the Kratos Valkyrie) is also part of a program of record for the USMC (US Marine Corps) to act as a partner SEAD (suppression of air defence) vehicle.
Thirdly, the "MARS" system chattered about looks to be Airbus' open architecture /system of systems pitch that they were developing for FCAS (the European 6th generation fighter program). MARS and all pitches like it are about ways to make individual platforms as software defined as possible, and to get different platforms/instances to really data/function share as much as possible.
If this program goes well, it shows that Airbus' MARS has the flexibility and capability required to just... layer into/ontop of some random other vendor's hardware/software and then "just work". I think it would be major demonstration/validation of the work.